SRINAGAR, July 29 -- A court in Srinagar has convicted a Kupwara resident for fraudulently obtaining a constable's job in the Indian Reserve Police (IRP) by submitting a forged Class XII certificate, bringing to a close a long-pending recruitment fraud case investigated by the Crime Branch Kashmir, now the Economic Offences Wing (EOW).
The Special Mobile Magistrate, 13th Finance Commission/Railway Magistrate, Srinagar, found Nazir Ahmad Malik, a resident of Bunpora Trehgam in Kupwara district, guilty under Sections 420 (cheating) and 471 (using a forged document as genuine) of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC).
According to the prosecution, Malik had secured his appointment in the IRP battalion by producing a fake 10+2 qualification certificate...